I grew up in Northern California, always dreaming of being a scientist, and a truly memorable undergraduate astronomy class at the University of California: San Diego inspired me to pursue a career in astrophysics. After college, I attended the astronomy Ph.D. program at the Ohio State University in Columbus. My dissertation research focused on how the lithium abundances of solar-type stars inform our understanding of their physical properties and evolutionary life-cycles. I graduated in 2016 and accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 2019, I began a career in Data Science at Digital Reasoning. I use machine learning tools to develop models which detect certain behaviors in natural language. 

When not doing research, I enjoy traveling, exploring new neighborhoods, playing soccer, rooting for the San Francisco Giants and Ohio State Buckeyes, and reading history books. I occasionally take advantage of the wonderful array of live music performed nightly here in Nashville, and more than occasionally enjoy its local specialty, hot chicken.

Hiking the Great Wall near Beijing in September, 2016

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Moments after defending my Ph.D. thesis